Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Deja vu... | Date | Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:53:58 -0500 |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I vaguely remember back at the end of 1998 the big "let's ship 2.2" push crescendoed towards the end of the year after two and a half years of development, there was the big push to ship it by christmas, then by new years, and after missing both deadlines it shipped a dot-zero release in january 1999, followed shortly thereafter by a "brown paper bag" bugfix release.
The big "let's ship 2.4" push crescendoed towards the end of 2000, after about two and a half years of development (give or take the 2.2 stabilization period before 2.3 forked off), there was a big push to ship it by christmas, then by new years, and after missing both deadlines it shipped a dot-zero at the start of january 2001, followed by the brown paper bag...
It's now coming up on two and a half years of development towards 2.6. It's getting towards the end of the year. (I take Linus is aiming to have the 2.6 release out by this christmas? ;)
Does this seem kind of familiar to anyone else...?
Rob
(I don't remember if 2.1 had a new feature freeze a year or so before the final code freeze the way 2.3 and 2.5 did, but it does seem we've got a pattern going here. But then I'm sleep-deprived right now, and could easily be imagining it...)
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